The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-03-26


repairing her feet"
''Are there many Of your profession
In the cityP"
when I came there were very few,
but now there are dozen or more, all
of whom make living according to
their skill"
"What constitutes the skill you refer
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ITO understand how to treat the corn
and ease the patient for a certain time.
1t is mistake to think that corns can
be taken out permanently as some say.
l am speaking of hard corns; the soft
ones between the toes can be eradicated.
The hard ones are rooted too deep down
toward the bone. There is a certain
limit how far we can go without caus-
ing blood to flow, and when we reach
that point we have to stop. But with
soft corns it is different, because root
and all hang together like India rubber,
but certain little instrument / use lifts
all out. OF course, there are times and
there are corns when we don't succeed
at the first operation, but subsequent
treatment invariably proves success,
A soft corn should never be cut with q
knife, because the sharp instrument
sewers the root and it can't be lifted
out"
1T is said that the wearing of easy
or loose shoes will cause corns to disap-
pear. How about that?"
EASY shoes will relieve the feet for
a while. but they will not effect per-
manent cure"
sWhat have you to say about bum
ions?"
"a bunion is an enlargement behind
the second joint of the big toe. Frost
bites and injury to the foot by heavy
substance falling on it originates bum
ions. When from one of these causes
the bone is bruised it will commence to
enlarge and callous flesh begins to form
on the top of the bunion- If not treated
in time it will cause great pain, and
very often the whole foot is disfgured.
But it is a great mistake to think
bunion can not be cured. If carefully
handled by competent chiropodist it
can be relieved easier than corn.'
What class Of people suffer most
from cornsp"
Those who walk or stand the most.
After an election l have great graft, for
the successful and defeated candidates
come in scores to be relieved. The
amount of walking they do during
campaign aggravates the natural born
corn and when the excitement attending
a canvass is ended their feet call for as
sistance and the politicians fly to some
chiropodist for relief. l treat them all
alike, never allowing my partizan feel
ings to overcome my professional judg-
ment, but I'll tell you that after hard
campaign some of the ward politicians
who have not the wherewithal to hire
carriages during the fight, come here
with corns looking like miniature noun
tains and feet terribly disfigured. I
ease them of course, for if failed /
would not be elected to their confidence
when another election came round. My
best customers are the highest class Of
people. have a regular high toned
patron who has not single corn or
blemish on his feet, but he visits me
once a week for inspection as if afraid
corn will come"
'.Are the wealthy more apt to have
corns than the poorer classesP'
'.Most certainly
How is that?"
There are two reasons for it. In the
first place they live higher than the
working classes, and corn, like the
govt, is partial to good feeding. Then
again they have more money to pay for
the extreme pleasure / give them while
forcing relief to come"
"Do you have many actresses to call
on your
II am particular favorite among
the ladies who tread the stage, and
nearly all of them pay me professional
visit whenever they are in the city.
There is one celebrated actress well
known as perfect Lady Teazle, who
never misses to pay her respects when
on this side of the river. 1t is not very
long since middle aged lady came to
me, saying that her daughter was to be
married the following night, and wished
me to call at the house to extract an in
verted nail. Twas introduced to her
on the morning of the wedding day,
and to show what imagination will do /
sat down and took out the nail without
her knowing any thing about it. Then
she wanted to know If it hurt to cut
that kind Of a nail, and thinking she
was joking cut off a little bit Of nail,
on the next toe, to let her see me do it.
To test her nerves and strength Of inn